Man found shot to death in Bayou Vista Monday

Man found shot to death in Bayou Vista Monday

FRANKLIN — The St. Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested a 21-year-old man in a fatal shooting early Monday in Bayou Vista.

Charles Douglas Chandler II, 100 block of Sun Road, Bayou Vista, was booked on one count of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 18-year-old Wade Blackburn, also of Bayou Vista, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies found Blackburn unresponsive when arriving to a report of shots fired about 12:45 a.m. Monday on Columbus Avenue, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.

Chandler was developed as a suspect based on witness statements, and detectives found evidence believed to be related to the homicide, including a gun, in a search of Chandlers’s home, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

In addition to the murder charge, Chandler was booked on counts of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm in the presence of a controlled dangerous substance, monetary instrument abuse and possession of Fioricet without a prescription, according to the Sheriff’s Office.